Draining the Swamp in Iraq
The recent explosion of violence in Iraq has several interrelated causes. In part, it is a spillover from the...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Draining the Swamp in Iraq
A nation must think before it acts.
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Ukraine: And the Winner Is . . . China
This essay is an expanded version of an article published originally by the Russian International Affairs Council. There is...
Russia, Crimea, and Kosovo: Right Place, Wrong Example
“A referendum is always possible as the last means through which citizens can voice their democratic will.” Aleksandar Vučić,...
China’s Economic Reforms and the Communist Party’s New Left
At China’s National People’s Congress in early March 2014, the Chinese government rolled out a new set of economic...
China and Ukraine: Principled Policy or Power Politics?
Russian president Vladimir Putin’s actions with regard to the unrest in Ukraine put the Chinese leadership in an exceedingly...
Ukraine and the Misunderstood Budapest Memorandum
A friend and Ukrainian patriot who blogs at Rebirth of a Nation: Dispatches from the Free Ukraine suggests that future efforts...
Playing With Fire: The Showdown in Egypt between the General and the Islamist President
General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, May 2013: “No one should think that the solution is with the army…. This army...
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Events in Ukraine are moving fast. What at first appeared to be a token show of force in the...
Morocco, Counter-Terrorism, and the US-Africa Summit
RABAT, Morocco–In the wake of unprecedented Islamist explosions and attacks across North Africa, the foreign ministers of 19 states–including...
Attacking America: Al Qaeda’s Grand Strategy in Its War with the World
Defining what precisely is meant by grand strategy and how al Qaeda, in particular, views grand strategy is vital...